Looks like we are getting our fair share of zombie films in coming years. With Comic Con heating up, author of such living dead hits as The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z and Max Brooks announced to MTV that famous actor Brad Pitt will play the lead role of the upcoming adaptation of his best selling novels.

Scheduled for a summer 2012 release, World War Z follows a journalist, who is tasked with gettting eye witness accounts of the war with the living dead that has ravaged the planet. The film is to be directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace) and written by Matthe Michael Carnahan.

Paramount has also bought the rights for Brooks other zombie related works.